The High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) (Nomination) Order 2017

Made: 23rd February 2017

Coming into force: 24th February 2017

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 45(1) of the High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Act 2017[^f00001], makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) (Nomination) Order 2017 and comes into force on 24th February 2017.

Appointment of nominated undertaker

2

• (1) High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd is be the nominated undertaker for—

• (a) all purposes of the scheduled works; and

• (b) subject to paragraph (2), the purposes of any other provision of the High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Act 2017 so far as connected with or in any way related to those works or otherwise for Phase One purposes.

• (2) The purposes referred to in paragraph (1)(b) do not include the demolition of the Vezey Wing (and link bridge) of the former National Temperance Hospital at 110-112 Hampstead Road, London NW1 2LS.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Andrew Jones — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Transport — 23rd February 2017

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Article 2 (1) of this Order appoints High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd as the nominated undertaker for all purposes of the scheduled works of the High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Act 2017 and for any other purposes under that Act in so far as those purposes are connected to those works or otherwise for Phase One purposes.

Article 2 (2) provides that the purposes referred to in paragraph (1)(b) do not include the demolition of the Vezey Wing (and link bridge) of the former National Temperance Hospital at 110-112 Hampstead Road, London NW1 2LS.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2017 c. 7.